I noticed that Loopwheels have used the Dahon Mu for their carbon sprung spoked wheels. They using a wider fork made my dahon, and also to my surprise the 'Sturmey & Archer' Hubs.

Emailed them this morning, asking for a possible quote for a bare-ish bike with hubs, so no rims / spokes / tyres.

The Dohan Mu in UK is around £550 ($900), considerably less than the £1400 ($2300) they are asking for the bike with loopwheels on. My wallet gained Sentience and bolted, and I Also considered no modding and ready to go with a quick wheel rebuild.

I been doing research on the drums as a brake, and like the idea.

Anyone have experience with 'Sturney & Archer' hubs on gear changes and reliability, and also would love a suggestion on a good 36h/20" rim / spokes / tyres?

I have a Sturmey XL-FDD on my son's city bike, so far so good. I have a couple of the old AW hubs that are pushing the 50,000 mile mark and are still ticking away. The only modern (post 2000) Sturmey hub that I have heard of any issues with has been the 5 speed, however that is what is on my son's city bike and it has been almost a year and no issues.

My normal rim of choice for 90% of my builds is the Sun-Ringle CR-18. I do have a couple of other Sun rims as well as some Weinman. I would look for double wall eyelet.

Aaron

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Sorry, I'm referring that, if I use a crows pattern, wont the angles of the nipples be to high for such a small wheel w/ hub?

Most will adjust spoke cross pattern to work, 2s, 1x or even radial.

I've built S/A hubs to Velocity Aero Heat rims with good success.

On my current Birdy, which I bought whole, the wheels are pretty interesting -- 36 spoke hubs laced to 28(?) hole rims, with a few extra spoke holes unfilled at the hub end of things. Rides great, no issues with out of true wheels...

On my current Birdy, which I bought whole, the wheels are pretty interesting -- 36 spoke hubs laced to 28(?) hole rims, with a few extra spoke holes unfilled at the hub end of things. Rides great, no issues with out of true wheels...

36h laced to 24h .. lace two skip one use 2/3 of the spoke holes per side .. been doing that for years on my personal projects that use 36h hubs .. SRAM P5 .. Sachs Automatic .. Sram Automatix .. Dual drive .. etc.. was hoping for the best on these paired spoke Velocity track wheels.. no problems yet over the past few years..